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Rauvolfia mombasiana Stapf [family APOCYNACEAE]
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 7, Part 2, (1985) Author: A. J. M. Leeuwenberg and F. K. Kupicha et al.
Names
Rauvolfia mombasiana Stapf [family APOCYNACEAE], in Kew Bull. 1894: 21 (1894); in F.T.A. 4, 1: 114 (1902). Syntypes from Tanzania, Kenya and Mozambique: Lower Zambezi, Shupanga, 10.i.1863, Kirk s.n. (K).
Rauvolfia monopyrena K. Schum. [family APOCYNACEAE], in Abh. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. 1894: 27 (1894); in Engl., Pflanzenw. Ost-Afr. C: 318 (1895). Type from Tanzania.
Information
Shrub or small tree, 0·50–9 m. high. Trunk up to 10 cm. in diam. Bark grey-brown, smooth or rough, lenticellate. Branches medium-green. Leaves petiolate; petiole 5–32 mm. long, glabrous; lamina 2·5–23·5 x 1–7 cm., narrowly obovate to narrowly elliptic, acute to subacuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, subcoriaceous to coriaceous, glossy, glabrous, with 8–25 secondary veins on each side of the midrib. Inflorescences many-flowered, fairly lax. Peduncle 2·2–15·5 cm. long, glabrous. Pedicels 3–8 mm. long, glabrous. Sepals 0·5–1·3 mm. long, triangular, glabrous. Corolla hypocrateriform; tube white, yellowish- or greenish-white, 4–7·6 mm. long, inside pubescent from 2·8–5·8 mm. above the base (or almost) to the apex; lobes sometimes different from the tube in colour, white, yellowish- or greenish-white, 0·8–1·8 mm. long, ovate to obovate, glabrous. Stamens inserted 3-6·8 mm. above the base of the corolla-tube; filaments 0·2-0·7 mm. long; anthers 0·8-1·2 mm. long. Pistil 2·6-5·5 mm. long; carpels 1·1-1·7 mm. long, glabrous; disk ring-shaped, 0·4-1 mm. high, glabrous; style 2-4·6 mm. long, glabrous; clavuncula 0·6-1 mm. long, sometimes sparsely pubescent; stigma 0·1-0·2 mm. long, glabrous. Fruits orange, yellowish- or reddish-orange; one or both carpels developing; carpels ellipsoid, 5-10 x 4-8 mm. Seeds 3-8 x 2-6 x 2-5 mm.
Habitat
Sandy or rocky places near the coast, on riverbanks, in light forest or in woodland.
Altitude range
100
0
inferred from habitat
Distribution
Mozambique MS Lower Zambezi, Shupanga, fl. 10.i.1863, Kirk s.n. (K).Mozambique Z Namacurra, km. 45 Nicuadala-Campo, c. 40m., fr. 2.ii.1966, Torre & Correia 14377 (LISC).Mozambique N Eráti, km. 10 Namapa-Nacaroa, c. 300 m., fl. 11.xii.1963, Torre & Paiva 9508 (LISC).
Distribution (external)
Kenya
Tanzania
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 7, Part 2, (1985) Author: A. J. M. Leeuwenberg and F. K. Kupicha et al.
Names
Rauvolfia mombasiana Stapf [family APOCYNACEAE], in Kew Bull. 1894: 21 (1894); in F.T.A. 4, 1: 114 (1902). Syntypes from Tanzania, Kenya and Mozambique: Lower Zambezi, Shupanga, 10.i.1863, Kirk s.n. (K).
Rauvolfia monopyrena K. Schum. [family APOCYNACEAE], in Abh. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. 1894: 27 (1894); in Engl., Pflanzenw. Ost-Afr. C: 318 (1895). Type from Tanzania.
Information
Shrub or small tree, 0·50–9 m. high. Trunk up to 10 cm. in diam. Bark grey-brown, smooth or rough, lenticellate. Branches medium-green. Leaves petiolate; petiole 5–32 mm. long, glabrous; lamina 2·5–23·5 x 1–7 cm., narrowly obovate to narrowly elliptic, acute to subacuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, subcoriaceous to coriaceous, glossy, glabrous, with 8–25 secondary veins on each side of the midrib. Inflorescences many-flowered, fairly lax. Peduncle 2·2–15·5 cm. long, glabrous. Pedicels 3–8 mm. long, glabrous. Sepals 0·5–1·3 mm. long, triangular, glabrous. Corolla hypocrateriform; tube white, yellowish- or greenish-white, 4–7·6 mm. long, inside pubescent from 2·8–5·8 mm. above the base (or almost) to the apex; lobes sometimes different from the tube in colour, white, yellowish- or greenish-white, 0·8–1·8 mm. long, ovate to obovate, glabrous. Stamens inserted 3-6·8 mm. above the base of the corolla-tube; filaments 0·2-0·7 mm. long; anthers 0·8-1·2 mm. long. Pistil 2·6-5·5 mm. long; carpels 1·1-1·7 mm. long, glabrous; disk ring-shaped, 0·4-1 mm. high, glabrous; style 2-4·6 mm. long, glabrous; clavuncula 0·6-1 mm. long, sometimes sparsely pubescent; stigma 0·1-0·2 mm. long, glabrous. Fruits orange, yellowish- or reddish-orange; one or both carpels developing; carpels ellipsoid, 5-10 x 4-8 mm. Seeds 3-8 x 2-6 x 2-5 mm.
Habitat
Sandy or rocky places near the coast, on riverbanks, in light forest or in woodland.
Altitude range
100
0
inferred from habitat
Distribution
Mozambique MS Lower Zambezi, Shupanga, fl. 10.i.1863, Kirk s.n. (K).Mozambique Z Namacurra, km. 45 Nicuadala-Campo, c. 40m., fr. 2.ii.1966, Torre & Correia 14377 (LISC).Mozambique N Eráti, km. 10 Namapa-Nacaroa, c. 300 m., fl. 11.xii.1963, Torre & Paiva 9508 (LISC).
Distribution (external)
Kenya
Tanzania
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